Whether the poll does or does not indicate the intelligence level of Palin’s supporters is immaterial. Personally, I don’t pay attention to polls. The last paragraph of this article though, very clearly explains why Sarah’s supporters are just stupid Republicans. Read on… TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Yahoo News
COMMENTARY | Sometimes polls tend to look like they indicate one thing when they really are only offering a broad view of a more intricate question, problem, argument or premise. Take, for instance, the recent Gallup poll that revealed that those Republicans with college degrees are more likely to vote for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney than any of the other potential 2012 GOP candidates. That same poll shows that of the respondents, only 9 percent who have college degrees support former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Does that indicate that those more inclined to support Palin are just a bunch of ill-educated, stupid Republicans?
Although the argument might be made that there exists a segment of Palin followers that are not only ill-educated and ignorant but also misguided and ill-informed. At the same time, that argument can be used against any candidates followers, whether they be Republican, Democrat or independent. But that argument does not accurately reflect what the lower numbers of college educated supporters/respondents in the poll actually indicates.
What the 9 percent truly indicates is that of 100 percent of those Republicans polled in the survey that have college degrees, only 9 percent of that number intend to support Palin as a candidate for president. At the same time, of 100 percent of Republicans polled that do not have a college degree, 16 percent assert they back the former Alaska governor. This does not in any way indicate that people of lower intelligence levels are supportive of Palin, just that there is a greater number of people who do not have a college education that back her candidacy as opposed to those who do have a college degree.
There is also the argument to be made that a college degree in no way indicates higher intelligence or a higher functioning mentality in an individual. It does not. However, it is generally accepted that those who have gone on to obtain college degrees are usually more socially and economically successful — given that life experience is magnified by greater opportunities — than those who have not. Regardless, whether one holds a degree or not is not indicative of how learned an individual might be (as autodidacts appear at every educational level), so the assumption that less college educated support indicates a more lumpen, ignorant mass of followers is not valid.
Still, in a broad way, the poll suggests (along with another section of the poll that indicates those in higher earnings brackets are more likely to vote for Romney as well, which some will see as a correlation of the higher education-higher income relationship) that the more educated the Republican respondents tended to be, the more likely they were to support Romney (21 percent). Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also enjoyed nearly double the number of supportive degree-holders (17 percent).
In the end, Palin detractors will not find it necessary to point to poll figures that seem to or might tend to indicate that her followers are the more ignorant, less educated among the Republican Party. All they really have to do is read her speeches, listen to the basic incoherency of her answers to simple questions during interviews, monitor her Twitter and Facebook posts, peruse her poorly written books and parse her public statements and Op-Ed articles in newspapers since she has entered public life — then ponder the coincidence that so few college educated Republicans support her. Better yet, perhaps they should ponder why anyone supports the half-term governor at all.
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